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For my bachelor's project, I am confronting the feelings of being transnationally adopted. I do not see adoption as a ”win-win” situation, and I would like people to both think critically about it and question its glorification. As a POC-child myself who grew up with white parents, colorblindness has made my existence rather difficult to deal with. Plagued with feelings I did not understand at the time, I became an isolated island. I want to visualize the feeling of estrangement and alienation from your own body and frightened to drown in your own skin. I have often felt the need to unzip my skin suit and to leave it in a pile on the floor, next to my trousers. In this project I am growing my own skin in a vat, or more precisely, I am growing a kombucha culture in tea and sugar. During the fermentation process, the kombucha culture creates a cellulose material that resembles human flesh. The process is slow, and the development of the material requires a lot of love and nutrition. In return, I get a self-produced material that allows me to work independently. My final piece communicates how it feels to not feel compatible with the body that encases you, as a result of the norms that are written onto your skin.

xiv, 204 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / The purpose of this study was to examine counselor trainees' perceptions of adopted clients and explore how trainee perceptions may vary according to counselor trainees' adoption-related knowledge, attitudes, and clinical skills. This study extends the limited body of research examining mental health professionals' potential bias related to adopted clients in their approach to treatment and case conceptualization. Counselor trainees (N = 430) read one of six client case study vignettes that were identical except for variations on client adoption status (adopted, transracially adopted, nonadopted) and client sex (male or female), resulting in six different stimuli conditions. Group differences were examined for two independent variables (client adoption status and client sex) and dependent variables measuring counselor trainees' perceptions of clients in four areas: (a) seriousness of treatment plan and prognosis, (b) assignment of favorable or unfavorable adjectives to clients, (c) counselor trainees' assessment of client level of functioning, and (d) diagnosis behavior. Preexisting counselor adoption knowledge, attitudes, and skills were assessed by the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills of Adoption Survey (KASAS) that was created and validated specifically for this study. Results of exploratory factor analyses on the KASAS revealed a cogent, three-factor structure for the measure with high factor internal consistency. The main study research questions were then addressed within the context of several univariate general linear models. Findings demonstrated that counselor trainees perceive adopted clients generally more negatively than nonadopted clients. Participants rated same-race adopted clients as lower functioning than nonadopted clients, reported having greater overall concern for adopted clients (both same-race and transracially adopted) in comparison with nonadopted clients, and rated adopted clients' problems as more severe than those of nonadopted clients despite being presented with otherwise identical presenting issues. Descriptive data revealed that 64% of trainees reported lack of preparation to deal with or no knowledge about adoption, and 89% reported wanting additional clinical training about adoption Implications for future research and practice are presented. / Committee in charge: Benedict McWhirter, Chairperson, Counseling Psychology and Human Services; Deanna Linville-Knobelspiesse, Member, Counseling Psychology and Human Services; Paul Yovanoff, Member, Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership; Ellen Herman, Outside Member, History

Thesis title: Adoption of persons of full age - evolution and comparison of legislation from the General Civil Code to the Civil Code 2012 This master's thesis focuses on historical evolution of the legal institute of adoption of persons of full age, also known as adoption of an adult or adult adoption. This legal option returned to the Czech family law after more than 60 years of legal history, during which it was prohibited with regard to the former understanding of adoption. The restoration of adult adoption to the Czech legislation was caused by one of the main principles on which the new Civil Code is based, and that is a return to traditional understanding and interpretation of family law within European continental traditions. The first part of this thesis deals with historical evolution of the legal option to adopt an adult person since the ancient Rome epoch, where this institute came from. The adoption had a totally different purpose compared to these days. It served especially the needs of an adoptive father, who wanted to have a successor of his own kin and heir. Roman law later became a model for legislation in the continental Europe. Until the middle of the 20th century, it was allowed to adopt an adult as well as a minor in the Czechoslovakia. This historical epoch of our family law...

L’expérience avec des familles issues de la migration et leurs adolescents en souffrance identitaire, que nous recevons dans notre dispositif de la clinique de la multiplicité alors que l’expression symptomatologique de leur mal être est au maximum nous a incités à ouvrir la question de la greffe, de l’adoption et de l’héritage psychiques. L’adoption, pensée comme l’aboutissement d’un processus réciproque de reconnaissance, demande à ce que soit interrogée la mise en place du rapport familier/étranger entre l’adolescent, l’enfant et ses parents. Pouvoir interroger la préhistoire psychique et les appartenances aussi bien chez les parents que chez l’adolescent/l’enfant c’est permettre de faire émerger les éléments sources, éléments constitutifs de l’identité issus de la transmission qui inscrivent dans les liens et les appartenances. C’est également permettre un traitement des restes ; ces restes qui agitent, qui poussent au clivage et à la destructivité. C’est aussi pouvoir pointer ce qui a fait défaut, ce qui a entravé ce processus. Ce travail d’archéologie psychique peut permettre de constituer ou de restaurer une membrane interne, une interface qui absorbe, filtre et transforme les éléments issus des échanges entre le dehors et le dedans ; entre l’enfant et ses parents ; un brassage d’informations qui s’imbriquent, se lient, qui fabrique la multiplicité, une multiplicité fonctionnelle qui enrichit l’identité. La métaphore de la greffe, du rejet, de corps étranger, de transplantation vont nous permettre de penser le concept de la greffe psychique pour pouvoir redéfinir le processus d’adoption, de reconnaissance réciproque et d’héritage ; processus qui dépasse le processus de transmission. En effet, au-delà de la position de « fils de », c’est ici la question du devenir « héritier » qui est posée et travaillée pour ces adolescents en souffrance et pourrait faciliter la redéfinition symbolique de leur acte de naissance. / Experience with migrant families and their adolescents in distress regarding their identity we receive in our setting: “La Clinique de la Multiplicité”, encourage us to open the issue of transplantation, of adoption and psychic inheritance. Adoption, thought as the culmination of a reciprocal process off recognition, led as to question the organization of the familiar/foreign relationship between the adolescent, the child and his parents.Questionning the psychic prehistory and the affiliations of both parents and adolescents / children, enables to reveal the source elements, the significant elements of identity as a result of , transmission, which inscribe the patient within links and affiliations.It allows, as well treatment of the remains; these remains that trouble the patient, pushing him towards dissociation and destructiveness. It also highlights what is lacking, what has hampered this process.This work of psychic archaeology can enable to constitute or to restore an inner membrane, an interface which absorbs, filters and transforms the elements issued from the exchange between the outside and inside ; between the child and his parents; a composition of information that fits together, that binds manufacturing the multiplicité, a functional multiplicité that enriches the identity.The metaphor of the transplantation, of the rejection of a foreign transplant will enable us to consider the concept of the psychic transplantation in order to redefine the process of adoption, of reciprocal recognition and inheritance; a process that exceeds the transmission process. Indeed, beyond being “son of”, the question of becoming heir is here relevant for these adolescents in suffering, a question that could facilitate the symbolic redefinition of their birth certificate.